Paleo Carrot Cake with Creamy Dairy Free Frosting

Traditional carrot cake recipes are loaded with refined sugar and flour, and usually topped with a dairy-laden frosting that is definitely not Paleo friendly. If you still want to enjoy this moist and tender spice cake while sticking to your Paleo principles, this Paleo Carrot Cake with Creamy Dairy Free Frosting recipe will fit the bill. Sweetened with a bit of maple syrup or honey, it’s full of good-for-you ingredients that won’t weigh you down.

The frosting is creamy and delicious, yet completely free of dairy. It pairs beautifully with the cake, and makes eating dessert something that you don’t have to feel (too) guilty about! So just a little word of caution – this cake is very calorie dense, as you’ll see in the nutrition info, so eat at your own discretion! It’s worth it, though – I promise.

Neely

Roxanne

This seems to be an expensive cake? Almond flour, coconut flour, 9 eggs, raw cahews and mapel syrup…wow, not good for a budget!

Christine

January 23, 2014

Wow, I think this recipe could grace Mrs Beeton’s cookery book. It’s a bit OTT for most people Mark.

I’m not even sure that almond flour and coconut flour can be obtained in the UK!

Frances

January 23, 2014

Roxanne, many Paleo desserts ARE expensive….but most of them are OH, SO WORTH IT!!!

william

January 23, 2014

Looks Delicious can’t wait to try. Yes a little pricey, but you should eat dessert in a blue moon(every other month)

Dave

January 23, 2014

New to paleo. What is coconut butter? Would I find it in the dairy case (with the regular butter) at Trader Joe’s?

Neely

January 23, 2014

Dave – No, you’d find it with the coconut oil and/or by the almond butter. I’d ask in the store, or buy it online if you can’t find it.

Cynthia

January 23, 2014

Baking powder has corn starch in it. Can Xanthan gum replace it? This is what I’ve been told.

Eileen

January 23, 2014

This must have a 1000 calories a slice !

Tracey O

January 24, 2014

Love it. Made it today and it is half gone. Love the ginger brownies they are to die for as well as the vanilla pound cake with coconut cream. Love all of your recipes. i have has chronic fatigue for months i have tried everything and nothing helped. Until i went Paleo i am back to 90% im amazed . Thankyou all x

wattscove@roadrunner.com

January 24, 2014

For me, the carb intake for one serving is what I try to maintain for the whole day! Or at the most, it doesn’t leave much room for the rest of the day, as I try to stay under 50 carbs for the day. It does sound wicked good though!

Davia R

February 15, 2014

Can this recipe be made into cupcakes? I would like to make them for my husband and me and freeze leftovers for future enjoyment.

Jody B

March 9, 2014

We made the cake and frosting for my daughters birthday. The cake turned out wonderfully. The frosting is different. It looks nothing like the picture. Maybe I did something wrong.

Sasha M

November 20, 2014

How important is the arrowroot starch for this recipe? I cannot find it anywhere in South Africa. Is there a substitute flour I can use?

Sasha, you can replace the arrowroot starch with 1 cup tapioca flour and get a very similar result.

Tiffany D

September 14, 2015

The “frosting” is watery and runny and oily. Literally gross!!! I followed the recipe exactly and it was gross!!! Maybe you meant to put 3/4 cup coconut oil??!!?!? Please advise. Because it was absolutely disgusting. The cake was fabulous but seriously the “frosting” is horrid!!!!!

Tiffany D

March 19, 2016

DO NOT MAKE THIS RECIPE. I wrote to paleoplan.com and told them twice! about the frosting calling for coconut oil and how much it calls for 1 3/4 CUPS!!! it ruined the whole cake. Which, BTW, takes much longer than 15 mins prep time. It took me that long just to gather the ingredients. As you can see it calls for numerous things, and I bet its delicious with THE RIGHT FROSTING recipe! It would probably be coconut milk or coconut cream that it is actually meant, but oil of the that amount is absolutley wrong! so disappointing because it was my birthday cake and it was so expensive to make, one bite each and we all went “gross” and had to throw it all away!!:( what a bummer. I am deeply disappointed that they haven’t corrected for all of you yet, saying they would but haven’t since I made it in Sept 2015, and it is now March, 2016. DON”T waste your time, effort and money until they fix it, trust me!

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